Linda Puppolo - She/her

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Linda is a 38-year resident of the Island of Maui, continuing her journey from the Boston suburbs, California Bay Area, and the foothills of the Sierra Blanca in New Mexico. As the Executive Director of the Maui A.I.D.S. Foundation and previously also of the Maui County Workforce Development, she provides executive management to agencies with client-based community services. Her other work has included being the Clinic Manager of the Planned Parenthood Clinic and the Operations Manager of an eighty-acre flower farm in Kula, Maui, Hawaii. She is known in the Maui County Community for her work as an advocate for children’s issues, nonprofit administration and accounting, and her years of community service, which led to being named the 1992 Women of Maui Award recipient by the Maui County Committee on the Status of Women. In 2022, Linda was named National Workforce Professional of the Year by the National Association of Workforce Development Professionals.